Alexander Wuttke
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Digitalization & Pol Behavior LMU_Muenchen | Democracy and Populist Attitudes | Open Science | 🚵♂️🐶
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Jula Luehring
about 8 hours ago
Misinformation research has a causality problem: lab experiments are limited; observational studies confounded. We used causal inference on 9.9M tweets, quantifying effects in the wild while blocking backdoor paths. Does misinfo get higher engagement? Are following discussions more emotional? 🧵
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OSF
https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/cemw7_v1
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Johannes B. Gruber
about 9 hours ago
Very happy to update the {traktok}
#rstats
readme. After 1.5 years, you can finally search TikTok again without access to the Research API. It's slow and a bit clunky, but it works! Thanks,
@michaelgoodier.bsky.social
for the crucial hint!
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Jane Green
4 days ago
If my network is anything to go by, the first EPSS conference is going to be a massive, enthusiastic success!
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German Longitudinal Election Study (GLES)
4 days ago
📢 The Fall Wave (Wave 33) of the GLES Panel is now in the field! From November 4 to November 17, we are conducting up to 13,000 interviews on a wide range of political topics 🗳️📊 Download the questionnaire (DE/EN) here: 👉
www.gesis.org/en/gles/over...
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Ruben C. Arslan
5 days ago
I strongly recommend
@hugoreasoning.bsky.social
's book "Not Born Yesterday" if you've been exposed to too much social psychology about irrationality in your youth.
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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Brian Nosek
6 days ago
Ouch
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Alex Coppock
7 days ago
Maybe your texts tell you to "BE A VOTER" like mine. It all started because of a PNAS paper that claimed that the noun form it increased voter turnout (relative to the verb form ) by 11 to 14 percentage points. It keeps not replicating, obviously. Most recently
doi.org/10.1017/bpp....
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I agree. Unfortunately, the OSF re-design isn't a big step forward. Took me quite a while today until I understood where to find the pre-registrations in my project
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Kristina Bakkær Simonsen
7 days ago
Final days to submit your abstract to the inaugural
@epssnet.bsky.social
conference! Deadline Nov 7 -
epssnet.org/belfast-2026...
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Magnus Karlsson-Good
10 days ago
Really enjoyed this clear and concise presentation of the problem with studies that throw 10 different covariates into a multiple regression and interpret them causally. So obvious in hindsight that this is problematic, but I have definetly been guilty of this.
bmjmedicine.bmj.com/content/4/1/...
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Factors associated with: problems of using exploratory multivariable regression to identify causal risk factors
Many medical and epidemiological studies use multivariable regression to test whether several independent variables (exposures) are causal determinants of a health outcome. Where mutually adjusted reg...
https://bmjmedicine.bmj.com/content/4/1/e001375
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Simon Hix
10 days ago
Better get your paper submissions in for the
@epssnet.bsky.social
conference in June 2026, as the deadline is 7 November, and we have no intention of extended that (given the submission numbers)!
epssnet.org/belfast-2026...
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Call for Papers | EPSS Belfast 2026 Conference
Submit your abstract or full paper for EPSS Belfast 2026. Share cutting‑edge political science research, network with peers & contribute to academic impact.
https://epssnet.org/belfast-2026/call-for-papers/
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Daniel Kubiak
11 days ago
Dortmund stabil!
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Valentin Lang
11 days ago
Happy to share that our paper on the ideological biases of international organizations is now out in the current issue of the AJPS (
@ajpseditor.bsky.social
):
dx.doi.org/10.1111/ajps...
@the-peio.bsky.social
@mzesunimannheim.bsky.social
@akentikelenis.bsky.social
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Anne Scheel
11 days ago
There still seems to be a lot of confusion about significance testing in psych. No, p-values *don’t* become useless at large N. This flawed point also used to be framed as "too much power". But power isn't the problem – it's 1) unbalanced error rates and 2) the (lack of a) SESOI. 1/ >
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Carl Henrik Knutsen
12 days ago
Check out or new article — published today in
@poppublicsphere.bsky.social
— where we discuss and provide guidelines for the construction and use of datasets. We draw on our lessons from three major data collection efforts on education policies and systems 👇
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CSS Lab, LMU Munich
12 days ago
This week, we have
@lorenzspreen.bsky.social
visiting our lab. He presented his work on disinformation classification and toxicity in group discussions on Reddit. He also has a new CSS group, check it out:
css-synosys.github.io
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Federico Trastulli
12 days ago
🆕 Latest article out
@electoralstudies.bsky.social
! Left parties' higher salience on cultural issues associated w/ higher support from working-class voters. Social democrats much more sensitive to different strategies, should pursue more left/salient economics
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Left parties’ strategies and working-class vote in contemporary Western Europe (2002–2020)
What should the left do strategically to retain workers' vote? This paper provides extensive empirical evidence on the relationship between left parti…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S026137942500112X
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Maria Antoniak
13 days ago
Very happy to announce the new Anthology for Computers and the Humanities! 🎉 Inspired by the wonderful ACL Anthology, this is an open, accessible, centralized repository for papers at different workshops, conferences, and related venues. All thanks to
@taylor-arnold.bsky.social
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Valerie Hase
13 days ago
Interested in understanding
#bias
in
#CSS
? ✨Here's our Special Issue editorial in Communication Methods and Measures: "Critical, but constructive: defining, detecting, and addressing bias in Computational Social Science" 👉
doi.org/10.1080/1931...
(with
@bachl.bsky.social
& Nathan TeBlunthuis)
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Chiara Vargiu
13 days ago
We are finally out!! Thanks to my fantastic co-authors, the anonymous reviewers, and
@thejop.bsky.social
editorial team. Publishing my first registered report has been an incredibly instructive and rewarding experience 🤓 Much has been said about political incivility, but does it actually exist? 🤷♀️
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Verena Kunz
13 days ago
Join us in 3 hours (at 17:00 Berlin time) to discuss replication problems of language models and recommendations for research! 🚨 for those from a different time zone: Germany already switched back clocks last weekend, so depending on where you are the time difference might be an hour off from usual
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Nils Weidmann
13 days ago
Thanks to the great help by
@rstrauch.bsky.social
, Gabriele Spilker and the Cluster of Excellence "The Politics of Inequality"
@excinequality.bsky.social
, version 5.0 of the "Mass Mobilization in Autocracies Database" (coverage until 2022) is now available at
mmadatabase.org
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Mass Mobilization in Autocracies Database
https://mmadatabase.org/
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Dan Quintana
14 days ago
Who’s gonna pay
@rpsychologist.com
to make a mega tool converting all g*power analysis types to an interpretable web tool like this?
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Alessandro Nai
14 days ago
🚨 New piece out at
@thejop.bsky.social
w awesome
@cvargiu.bsky.social
& D Garzia If incivility means breaking norms, & norms are person- and context-dependent, *does incivility even exist*? In the stage-2 registered report we investigate what drives perceptions of incivility
tinyurl.com/4h5u4y8y
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Matti Vuorre
14 days ago
🎉
@rpsychologist.com
's PowerLMM.js is the online statistics application of the year 2025 🎉
powerlmmjs.rpsychologist.com
- Calculate power (etc) for multilevel models - Examine effects of dropout and other important parameters - Fast! (Instant results)
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Scott Ashworth
15 days ago
Tapping the sign:
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Jana Lasser
14 days ago
My lab is looking for a Senior Scientist (= PostDoc with option of permanency)! We are looking for someone interested in doing cutting-edge computational social science + helping us with data & software engineering 🤓. See job ad for details
jobs.uni-graz.at/en/jobs/7d14...
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Universität Graz
https://jobs.uni-graz.at/en/jobs/7d1400f4-cbe6-ab69-dc82-68e77675d81c?category=Academic%20Staff%20(Non-Tenure-Track),Academic%20Staff%20(Development%20Position)
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Matt Darling
16 days ago
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21447233/
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LK Seiling
18 days ago
The key terms here are: 1) burdensome procedures 2)burdensome tools While the findings themselves are not public, let's take a closer look 🧵👇
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD
18 days ago
A massive study on the effects of social class tested 35 hypotheses in 4 countries (N = 33,536) Only 50% of findings replicated Hypotheses based on differences between social class contexts in terms of constraints, uncertainty & status were supported:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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𝙅𝙖𝙘🍩𝙗 𝙉𝙮𝙧𝙪𝙥
22 days ago
Moreover, I have recently been awarded an ERC starting grant towards the project GETGOV to work further on this, so expect more data on cabinet members in the future. I am currently hiring two PhDs and two postdocs:
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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Jacob Nyrup awarded EU funds to research political elites - Department of Political Science
Jacob Nyrup from the Department of Political Science has been granted a substantial 18 million Norwegian kroner by the EU's research council to examine political elites in countries before and after d...
https://www.sv.uio.no/isv/english/about/news-and-events/news/2025/jacob-nyrup-getgov-erc-stg.html
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Sumitra Badrinathan
27 days ago
🚨 out at
@apsrjournal.bsky.social
🚨 ➡️ We ran a large media literacy experiment to fight misinformation ➡️ 13,500 students, 583 villages in Bihar, India ➡️Created custom misinfo curriculum of 4 months ➡️Partnered w the government to roll it out as an official course in classrooms hopeful findings👇🏽
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Colleagues: What’s your favorite, accessible resource (reading, video, slide deck) to convince students that regression on observational data—even with many controls—is not often causal. (Quasi-)experimental designs are preferred for causal inference.
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Verena Kunz
about 1 month ago
Next Wednesday (October 15, 17:00 Berlin time), we're kicking off next term's Speaker Series with a talk and package demo by Francisco Tomas-Valiente on "Uncertain Performance: How to Quantify Uncertainty and Draw Test Sets When Evaluating Classifiers". Paper and information on how to join ⬇️
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Alex Holcombe
about 1 month ago
We started
@metaror.bsky.social
MetaROR.org
in part because of the absence of a journal that publishes metascience. But rather than a traditional journal, as metascientists we wanted to explore the next frontier - Publish, Review, Curate.
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Home - MetaROR
MetaResearch Open Review MetaResearch Open Review MetaResearch Open Review A new platform designed to transform how we review and share metaresearch A new platform designed to transform
https://MetaROR.org
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Bernd Schlipphak
about 1 month ago
This is a highly interesting, timely and great initiative - a new diamond OA journal for
#replication
research! It is interdisciplinary, but
#PolSci
is specifically invited. Hence, if you or someone you know has an interesting replication paper, do not hesitate to submit!
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Lukas Röseler
about 1 month ago
ReplicationResearch.org
is now open for submissions! Submit replications and reproductions from many different fields, as well as conceptual contributions. With diamond OA, open and citable peer review reports, and reproducibility checks, we push the boundaries of open and fair publishing.
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Sehenswertes Begrüßungsstatement des neuen LMU Präsidenten Matthias Tschöp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDHdVJDDat0
about 1 month ago
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Paul Hünermund
about 1 month ago
💯 Academic social media was a game changer for scholars from traditionally less well-connected places.
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Linus Westheuser
about 1 month ago
JUST OUT: "Boundaries and Cleavages: Elements of a Cultural Sociology of Political Divides." OA:
direct.mit.edu/ecps/article...
It develops what the cultural sociology of group formation can contribute to research on political cleavages. (And why "Somewheres vs Anywheres" really doesn't cut it.)
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Nate Breznau
7 months ago
The Academy of Sociology (Akademie für Soziologie, not on Bsky wut?) is offering a 1,500 Euro prize for the best
#replication
study in
#sociology
as25.sociology.uni-mainz.de
#openscience
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AS Conference 2025
https://as25.sociology.uni-mainz.de/
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Alexia Katsanidou
about 1 month ago
Great paper on the state of political science
osf.io/preprints/os...
by
@guygrossman.bsky.social
et. al. We have become more diverse, more quantitative, and more collaborative.
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Ruth Dassonneville
about 1 month ago
Really excited that after several years of working on it, revising, and getting lots of rejections, our paper (w/ Rune Stubager & Mads Thau) on citizens’ responses to group appeals is *finally* out
@ejprjournal.bsky.social
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
A 🧵 on our findings...
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How group appeals shape candidate support: The role of group membership, identity strength, and deservingness perceptions | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
How group appeals shape candidate support: The role of group membership, identity strength, and deservingness perceptions
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/european-journal-of-political-research/article/how-group-appeals-shape-candidate-support-the-role-of-group-membership-identity-strength-and-deservingness-perceptions/6A35D7B147A03DB5785E4FB3539473A3
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Andreas Jungherr
about 1 month ago
🧵 New publication: How do people feel about regulating
#AI
in election campaigns? 🧵 In a new article,
@adrauc.bsky.social
,
@kunkakom.bsky.social
, and I examine when and why people support stronger AI regulation in political competition.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Explaining public preferences for regulating Artificial Intelligence in election campaigns: Evidence from the U.S. and Taiwan
The increasing use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in election campaigns, such as AI-generated political ads, automated messaging, and the widespread …
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308596125001697
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Maria Farrell
about 1 month ago
7 years ago Tim Cook told the European Parliament: “We're responsible for recognizing that the devices we make and platforms we build have real…lasting…even permanent effects on individuals and communities who use them We must never stop asking ourselves What kind of world do we want to live in?"
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Open Science Professor ship at HU Berlin
www.academics.de/jobs/w2-prof...
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W2-Professur "Open Science" an der Philosophischen Fakultät - Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin bietet Stelle als W2-Professur "Open Science" an der Philosophischen Fakultät in Berlin - jetzt bewerben!
https://www.academics.de/jobs/w2-professur-open-science-an-der-philosophischen-fakultaet-humboldt-universitaet-zu-berlin-berlin-1102352?utm_medium=jobmail&utm_source=daily&utm_campaign=25_10_03&user_token=SFMyNTY.g3QAAAACdwRkYXRhYgH3hLh3BnNpZ25lZG4GANVPtqiZAQ.oPth3Ded0IF9bjn5KFKoW7uHAVxh_WYRXWngWxCd8uM&utm_content=job_1&utm_term=title&mj_campaign=nl_ref&mj_content=zeitde_text_link_x&mj_medium=nl&mj_source=int_zonaudev_
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Hertie School
about 1 month ago
The Hertie School mourns the passing of Prof. Dr Dr h.c. Claus Offe, Professor Emeritus of Political Sociology, an extraordinary scholar, teacher and colleague. We extend our heartfelt condolences to his family, friends and all who had the privilege to know him.
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David Woodruff
about 1 month ago
RIP Claus Offe. He built his own monument in his work; here’s something great.
www.hwiesenthal.de/publik/hw/2l...
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Zeynep Somer-Topcu
about 1 month ago
Still confused about EPSA vs. EPSS? Which conference should you go to? Here is a link to clarify things:
epssnet.org/uncategorize...
TL;DR: "EPSA" community will be in Belfast. Same community, new organisation, bigger mission; slightly new name; and a very different foundation
@epssnet.bsky.social
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Alexander Horn
about 1 month ago
The—AI-related—stigmatization of the em dash makes it even harder to squeze my very German thoughts into english words.
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